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Some Coast Miwok Tales UC Merced The Journal of California Anthropology Title Some Coast Miwok Tales Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39t6s0kt Journal The Journal of California Anthropology, 5(1) Author Kelly, Isabel Publication Date 1978-07-01 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Some Coast Miwok Tales ISABEL KELLY EDITOR'S NOTE: Isabel Kelly, who re­ pology. The tales were put in tentative shape ceived her Ph.D. in 1932 at the University of for publication soon after completion of the California. Berkeley, lives in Tepepan, Mexico. field work. Recently, the introductory sections In the 1930's, she carried out field research were rewritten and several end notes were among the Southern Paiute. Northern Paiute, added or modified. The orthgraphy used in this and other California Indian groups that paper is Dr. Kelly's own as recorded in the resulted in a series of ethnographic papers. early 1930's. and varies slightly from that of This was followed by archaeological work in Callaghan's "Bodega Miwok Dictionary" Arizona and West Mexico. Since 1939, she has (1970). Concerning her consultants. Dr. Kelly lived almost continuously in Mexico, except recalls: "Both Mr. Smith and Mrs. Copa were for stints in Bolivia and Pakistan. The material agreeable, cooperative, and blessed with a presented here is a by-product of ethnographic delightful sense of humor; despite the passage study among the Coast Miwok in 1931-32, of decades. I remember them vividly and with when she was a graduate student in anthro­ genuine affection." HE stories herein presented were record­ of the Bodega or Western dialectic group and Ted between December of 1931 and May of Maria Copa Frias (MC) of the Marin or the next year, incidental to ethnographic field Southern group (Barrett 1908:303-5). Mr. work among the Coast Miwok, in Marin Smith was by far the elder and, on many County, just north of San Francisco, Califor­ scores, the better informed, but as raconteur nia. Some qualify as myths; most are animal Mrs. Copa was the better. Although both were stories. Some are short fragments; others are more fluent in Spanish than English, in those comparatively long, in some cases with the days my Spanish was inadequate, and the tales component incidents not well integrated. The were recorded directly in English. Editing has collection is far from complete but is augment­ been hmited as far as possible. Vocabulary has ed to some extent by the Miwok tales published been changed very little, but there has been by Merriam (1910), among which are seven minor "correction" of grammar; repetition has from the two Coast Miwok dialectic groups been retained. and one from the Lake Miwok. In addition, Some data concerning the consultants' de Angulo and Freeland (1928) have published background are pertinent. Mr. Smith's father a number of tales from the Lake Miwok (and and paternal grandfather were from the Fort Pomo). Ross area, hence were Southwest Pomo; "they Consultants were Tom Smith (referred to came here to fish." His father, in fact, was below as TS) (called also Tomas Comtechal) "baptized at Bodega, under a tree," before 22 THE JOURNAL OF CALIFORNIA ANTHROPOLOGY there was a church. His paternal grandmother, born at tokau, on the west side of Bodega Bay, "had two languages": Pomo and Coast Miwok, the latter of the Bodega or Western dialect. The mother of Mr. Smith was born near Petaluma and was, as he expressed it, "half Petaluma, half Tomales, and half Bodega." The first two refer to the Marin dialect of Coast Miwok; the last, to the Bodega dialect. The mother's parents were essentiaUy local: his maternal grandfather was "from around this country"; his maternal grandmother from Cole­ man Valley where Mr. Smith was born. As a young man, he lived about five years among the Lake Miwok, where he married a South­ east Pomo woman by whom he had two daughters. With his Pomo wife he spoke "a Uttle in Spanish and a little in English." He also spent a good deal of time intermittently on the coast, among the Southwest Pomo, and was a Bole-Maru participant (see Note 15). Evident­ ly Mr. Smith was exposed to considerable outside influence, although absorption of tales from non-Miwok sources may have been hmit­ ed by linguistic differences. Mrs. Copa was born at etca-tamal, near Nicasio, and was christened Maria Austina [sic; Agustina? Faustina?] at Benson, Lucas Valley, "where the poor farm is." Her parents were Pedro Copa of Solano [Mission?] and Juanita Bautista (native name: sekiak, an aquatic plant, apparently horse tail), who was affiliated with the San Rafael mission. Mrs. Copa's paternal grandfather was one of Vallejo's captains and, as such, was con­ sidered "Mexican." However, his father was a "Solano Indian," perhaps Wintun (?), and his mother probably was the same. Mrs. Copa's Tom Smith (Thomas Comtechal) and Maria Copa Frias, both photographed by C. Hart Merriam, 1927. Courtesy cultural heritage from the male side was negli­ of the Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 8, gible. Because of mistreatment, the grand­ California, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. father defected, with some of his "Indian" soldiers; the group was apprehended and wiped out. Mrs. Copa's father seems to have had little to do with his wife's family, and she was raised by her mother and her maternal grandparents. COAST MIWOK TALES 23 Her mother (Juana Bautista) was the example, Nos. 11, \9b, 21, 22, 23). As usual, daughter of Maria Nicolasa (native name: silai, winter nights were the appropriate time for apparently Sidalcea malvaeflora, which pro­ recitation: duces an edible leaf) and El Siario, factotum at "Coyote was our god. Four months the San Rafael mission, where he was laundry- every winter, [they] told stories about him" man, violinist for Mass, and night watchman. (TS). His cultural affiliations are unambiguous; both "My grandmother used to tell them his parents (christened Isidro and Isidra) were [the tales] every night in winter; she said from the vicinity of San Rafael, bince Coast the nights in summer were too short. If she Miwok of the Marin group. told them in the day it would make the day Mrs. Copa's grandmother, Maria Nicolasa, short. Some ofthe stories were so long I is a key person because from her Mrs. Copa went to sleep" (MC). learned the tales presented here. It is uncertain In combination with various isolated state­ if the grandmother were born in the San Rafael ments, the tales give some idea ofthe legendary area or in San Francisco, but apparently she world of the Coast Miwok: was baptized at "San Dolores" [sic] and had Far to the north was a mysterious land: lived at both the San Rafael and Dolores ''''wali-kapa was a sort of cliff or mountain. missions. Theoretically, her background could Beyond it the young ducks hve. They say that have been Coast Miwok, Costanoan, or that of on the other side the sky comes way down. It is one of the other native groups assembled in to the north; it is not [reached by] a passage San Francisco. However, the mother of Maria that is closed" (MC). For the same Marin Nicolasa was named Otilia and was from Coast Miwok, Merriam (1910:214, ftn. 21) has Nicasio; her father, Otiho, either was from the a somewhat clearer account and doubtless is Dolores mission in the first place or had been correct in identifying the passage with the taken there from Coast Miwok country. In any north hole in the sky. event, the native language of Maria Nicolasa There was neither creation nor creator, was the Marin dialect of Coast Miwok. In although Coyote {6ye-6yis) dominated the addition, she could communicate, although scene and, to considerable extent, was respon­ not easily, with the kekos or tUstiiko, as the sible for certain natural and cultural features. people of San Leandro and (presumably Mis­ His trickster aspect is little evident, and in one sion) San Jose were called. They could have tale (No. 23) he was duped by the Blackbirds. been Costanoan or of some undetermined His land lay far to the west, beyond the Miwok speech (A.L. Kroeber 1907:26, ftn. 64). ocean. He appeared first on the primeval Her contact with them seems to have been water, foUowed by his grandson. Chicken related to the Pleasanton movement of the hawk {walindpi),^ the latter in the form of a 1870's. It is evident that extraneous influences feather floating on the water (No. 2; cf. Mer­ may also have colored the tales that Mrs. Copa riam 1910:203-204, who has another account learned from her grandmother, Maria Nicolasa. from the Marin Coast Miwok). Coyote dried the water and land appeared without interven­ THE LEGENDARY WORLD tion of earth divers. He undertook to regulate the Manifestly, the tales were an important tides, first establishing such excessively low means of instructing the young in Coast Miwok tide that the fish died, except those that managed lore. "The old stories are called a'kala" (MC) to survive in water holes in the rocks. Later he and were related by women as well as men. corrected the error and arranged the tides as Song was interspersed with the narrative (for they are today (TS). There is a bald statement 24 THE JOURNAL OF CALIFORNIA ANTHROPOLOGY to the effect that Coyote sometimes caused during the wife's menses. He sponsored death thunder (TS), and informants did not mention because he enjoyed hearing people cry (No. 6); that the rainbow was considered Coyote's bow he did not oppose death, only to be thwarted (Merriam 1910:223).
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